Scaling Fisheries
Subtitle: The Science of Measuring the Effects of Fishing, 18551955 (Cambridge Studies in Applied Ecology and Resource Management)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780521038966
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Fisheries & related industries; Fishes (ichthyology); Nature; Nature/Ecology; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Wildlife; Fish stock assessment--History; Nature / Natural Resources; Nature / Wildlife; Nature : Natural Resources; Science : Life Sciences - Biology - General; Natural Resources
First sentence: "In 1864 the Norwegian government asked Georg Ossian Sars, son of the pioneering Norwegian marine biologist Michael Sars, to determine why the cod catches from the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway fluctuated so greatly (Sars 1876, 1879a)."